U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks

75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes

Quintin George

‘We can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us’

BY: Adam Kredo
U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress.

Strikes against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) targets are often blocked due to an Obama administration policy to prevent civilian deaths and collateral damage, according to Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The policy is being blamed for allowing Islamic State militants to gain strength across Iraq and continue waging terrorist strikes throughout the region and beyond, according to Royce and former military leaders who spoke Wednesday about flaws in the U.S. campaign to combat the Islamic State.

“You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can’t drop, we can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us,” Royce said. “I don’t understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit.”

When asked to address Royce’s statement, a Pentagon official defended the Obama administration’s policy and said that the military is furiously working to prevent civilian casualties.

“The bottom line is that we will not stoop to the level of our enemy and put civilians more in harm’s way than absolutely necessary,” the official told the Washington Free Beacon, explaining that the military often conducts flights “and don’t strike anything.”

“The fact that aircraft go on missions and don’t strike anything is not out of the norm,” the official said. “Despite U.S. strikes being the most precise in the history of warfare, conducting strike operations in the heavily populated areas where ISIL hides certainly presents challenges. We are fighting an enemy who goes out of their way to put civilians at risk. However, our pilots understand the need for the tactical patience in this environment. This fight against ISIL is not the kind of fight from previous decades.”

Jack Keane, a retired four-star U.S. general, agreed with Royce’s assessment of the administration’s policy and blamed President Barack Obama for issuing orders that severely constrain the U.S. military from combatting terror forces.

“This has been an absurdity from the beginning,” Keane said in response to questions from Royce. “The president personally made a statement that has driven air power from the inception.”

“When we agreed we were going to do airpower and the military said, this is how it would work, he [Obama] said, ‘No, I do not want any civilian casualties,’” Keane explained. “And the response was, ‘But there’s always some civilian casualties. We have the best capability in the world to protect from civilians casualties.’”

However, Obama’s response was, “No, you don’t understand. I want no civilian casualties. Zero,’” Keane continued. “So that has driven our so-called rules of engagement to a degree we have never had in any previous air campaign from desert storm to the present.”

This is likely the reason that U.S. pilots are being told to back down when Islamic State targets are in site, Keane said, citing statistics published earlier this year by U.S. Central Command showing that pilots return from sorties in Iraq with about 75 percent of their ordnance unexpended.

“Believe me,” Keane added, “the French are in there not using the restrictions we have imposed on our pilots.”

And the same goes for Russians, he said, adding, “They don’t care at all about civilians.”

The French have been selecting their own targets since beginning to launch strikes on the Islamic State earlier this week, according to a second Pentagon source who spoke to the Free Beacon earlier this week about the strikes.

France dropped at least 20 bombs on key Islamic State targets within two days after the terror attacks in Paris that killed 129. French strikes have killed at least 33 Islamic State militants in the past several days.

Blaze: POLITICSSarah Palin Tells Radio Host the Big Mistake She Thinks GOP Is Making: ‘Republicans, You Are Idiots’

“I was watching him today Hugh and I’m thinking, ‘Republicans, you are idiots to be marginalizing his supporters.’ And his dad’s supporters too,” the former Republican vice presidential nominee said.

Palin added, “What his supporters are saying is, ‘C’mon government, get off our back! And allow us to prioritize our finances, our cultural aspects of our life. Let us prioritize according to our own will. Government, don’t do it for us.’”

Palin added in the interview that she admired Paul’s “libertarian streak,” though she said she disagreed with the Kentucky senator on some foreign policy issues.

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Steve Peoples reports for the AP (via Yahoo) that on Jan. 15, 2015, in a 35-min. luncheon speech to the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting outside San Diego, presidential aspirant Dr. Ben Carson compared ISIS or the Islamic State (who chop off the heads of their enemies, especially Christians) to the patriots of the American Revolution. See FOTM for full story. Here is the video of that speech:

One of my cyber buds called Carson “Shifty.” She said, “The Media is holding back on his top advisor, Armstrong Williams, and the dumbed down public doesn’t see that they’re holding back until Cruz or Rubio can be manipulated into place on the undiscerning electorate.”

Remember too, that Williams recently broadcast his radio show live from Farrakhan’s celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March. Considering the fact that people were responding to Carson’s tough talk about Muslims, this story may be something Carson won’t want getting traction. To top it off, Armstrong wants taxpayers to fund Farrakhan! Link

Add this together with Carson speaking at Al Sharpton’s NAN convention and stating that he and Al Sharpton have the same goals. Link Remember, our momma’s told us, “You’ll be known by the company you keep, and if you lay down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas.”

American Thinker’s Article, “Ben Carson in His Own Words,” has several of Carson’s statements. [At Yale in the late 1960s],”I was proud to see groups such as the Black Panthers standing up to brutal police tactics, and though I never joined any radical student organizations, I kept abreast of the activities of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Weathermen, and other groups willing to use aggressive tactics to accomplish “social justice.” I’d urge you to read this article in full as Carson’s statements belie the fact that he’s a conservative.

Team Jeb Worked to Talk Up Carson

There were numerous signals that Team Jeb (RNC/GOPe) was working to talk up Carson.

Dana Perino, a die-hard Bush loyalist, has been working this angle for several weeks. Fox news host Megyn Kelly has also been working diligently to promote Carson as a kinder, gentler and more palatable, i.e. less vulgarian, option.

The promotion of Carson specifically targeted Trump supporters –depending on the primary state, the hope was it might work to pull Trump down enough to stop the current momentum. Link

Carson on Illegal Aliens

His latest immigration plan was spelled out at a speech at Liberty University November 11th, and reported by Breitbart.

I would agree with Carson on getting rid of incentives, but law breakers do not belong in our country, many are criminals as well as carrying diseases. The number of 11 to 12 million illegals has been used since Reagan actually gave amnesty to 3 million, and another five of their family members, totaling 15 million. It was a dismal failure. Link The reality is, there are 50 to 60 million illegals in this country with the southern border being a sieve.

Carson’s position on the value of American citizenship is seriously flawed. He should acknowledge that American citizens have rights too. Dr. Carson has to understand that American citizenship must never be treated like a “tip” for “putting up with us rude Americans who harass people with our laws.” Citizenship is not something people get for “services rendered.”

I fully believe Carson is for full amnesty for all illegal aliens.

Trump has it right…and he’s the only one who does.

Carson to use Department of Education as his hammer

Sounding more like his would-be predecessor, Dr. Ben Carson said he has no intention of getting rid of the Dept. of Education. Instead, he would remake it into a policing-type organization that monitors the speech of professors and others at universities and colleges to ensure that bias is not practiced. Suffice it to say, this would be bias which Dr. Carson considers to be bias and the definition could—and likely would—change as does the good doctor’s whims. This is totalitarian thinking, folks…and it’s chillingly coming from Dr. Carson. Link

To top it off, Carson says that children in schools learning about actual American history might make the students want to join ISIS! He is speaking at the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Action Summit.

Carson is all for the TPP!

Carson proclaimed that he supported the Obama White House in its plan to force the Trans-Pacific Partnership down the throats of US citizens…a deal that would provide one of the last nails in the coffin of US sovereignty. Ben acts as though he’s a staunch conservative, but he leans more and more towards Marxism. (The prayer breakfast attended by Carson, where he made such a good showing as a conservative, is run by Doug Coe’s secretive “The Fellowship” or “The Family.” They have such members of so-called opposite political stances as DeMint and Hillary Clinton. Link See Constance Cumbey’s five part article entitled, “The Family, and its hij****** of Evangelicalism.”) We have to watch what people do, not just listen to what they say. Ben Carson said that he supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiated by the White House – aligning himself more with the GOP’s establishment wing than with the social conservatives who have powered his campaign. Link

Carson says he wants to level the playing field, and he likes Free Trade for that reason, but what he’s saying is the playing field is leveling America down to a third world country. Link

More and more, Dr. Carson really is looking like a Trojan Horse. The media is not vetting Carson for reasons I explained in my previous article, Christians Lack of Discernment.

Carson’s Support of Death Panels

Twenty years ago, Dr. Carson had his own ideas about how to reform health care in America. Some of those ideas may surprise you.

Buzzfeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski wrote a story about Carson’s 1996 proposal, and some of the “radical” elements it contains. Among them:

· Government run catastrophic health care.

· A computerized national medical records database.

· Food stamp-like “health care vouchers” for the poor.

· National care guidelines for the terminally ill.

The Affordable Care Act puts insurance companies firmly in the driver’s seat in terms of health care, provided they agree to follow a simple set of government rules. But Carson’s proposal for a catastrophic health care fund would have given the government control over care in that area. The government’s catastrophic care program would be funded by mandatory contributions from insurance company profits. Carson writes, “Such a fund would be supported by a mandatory contribution of approximately 10 to 15 percent of profits of each health insurance company, including managed care operations.”

Does that sound like “a government takeover” to anyone?

Carson wrote in 1996, “Decisions on who should be treated and who should not be treated clearly requires some national guidelines and obviously should be made based on the viability of the patient rather than the age of the patient. There are clearly many 90-year-old individuals who are healthier than some 40 or 50-year-old individuals and certainly medical treatment should not be withheld if there is a reasonable chance of recovery and resumption of a normal lifestyle. If a patient insisted on having everything done, consideration of more aggressive treatmentshould be given.”

Does “national guidelines” for who should and should not be treated, sound like “death panels” to you?

Here is a list of Carson’s comments on health care. Carson wants to regulate insurance like non-profits. Scroll down and read “Government responsibility for catastrophic coverage” being government responsibility. Then scroll to “Let paralyzed quadriplegics choose to die if they wish it,” and removing the ventilator.

Carson’s current opinions in this area are rather different than what he wrote in 1996. Still, it gives me the willies that a person of his position could advocate for something like national care guidelines, especially in a medical journal. If he changed his mind once, what’s to keep him from changing it again?

Medicare/Medicaid

Carson originally proposed to scrap Medicare and Medicaid entirely—a genuinely radical idea, and one with massive policy and political risks. Under his plan, every American would receive a cradle-to-grave health savings account with an annual $2,000 government subsidy, which family members could share. But after the third debate two weeks ago, Carson began running away from that old idea, which had been coming under increasing attack by fellow Republicans, particularly Donald Trump who said, “Ben wants to get rid of Medicare. You can’t get rid of Medicare. It would be a terrible thing to get rid of.”

The mere fact that the MSM and politicians refer to Medicare and Social Security as an entitlement absolutely infuriates me. American citizens have PAID into SS since 1937, and into Medicare since 1966. We were forced to give the government our money in exchange for a promise from them. However, they feel free to “cut” those benefits and promises anytime they wish, but never cut the giveaways to illegals, to those who don’t work, and to the entire welfare community.

It would take decades to eliminate Medicare/Medicaid, by attrition and funding. Too many baby boomers rely on Medicare today, a fund they’ve paid into all their lives! The reality is this, Medicare and Medicaid should never have been started, but it was passed into law on July 30, 1965, and beneficiaries were first able to sign-up for the program on July 1, 1966.

Carson and Multi-Level Marketing

Check out Carson’s long involvement with Mannatech, a multi-level marketing organization who claimed their vitamin products cured AIDS, cancer, ALS, autism, etc. In 2007, Texas charged Mannatech with an unlawful marketing scheme that exaggerated health benefits. Link In 2009, Texas reached an agreement: Mannatech paid $4 million in restitution to customers while admitting no wrongdoing, and was prohibited from saying that their products can cure disease. Yet Carson’s interactions with the company continued for five more years. Link In fact, in March of 2014, Carson was still doing infomercials for the company.

Dr. Carson’s Beliefs

Dr. Carson stated, “We believe the revelation and inspiration of both the Bible and Ellen White’s writings to be of equal quality.” Adventist Ministry magazine of October 1981. Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA).

The doctor has been taken to task for stating the pyramids were for storing grain. He must have been thinking of Joseph. The Book of Genesis tells that Joseph was the 11th of Jacob‘s 12 sons and Rachel‘s firstborn, and tells how Joseph came to be sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and rose to become vizier: the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh. When famine struck Canaan, Jacob (Joseph’s father) and Joseph’s brothers came to the Land of Goshen in Egypt, and pleaded for food. Joseph had stored up plenty, but not in the pyramids. The pyramids were burial tombs of the pharaohs.

The SDA church does not believe in combat. When conscripted, they serve in other capacities. I have no problem with this, except I wonder how an SDA member could lead the nation as “Commander in Chief.”

In my article, The Absolute Joy of Giving, I explained the actual Mosaic Law of tithing. When people pull certain verses out of context and then misapply what they have pulled out of context, you end up with false doctrine.

Founder Ellen White made many predictions of the return of Christ. None of the predictions ever came true. We must conclude on the basis of Deut. 18:21-23 that she was a false prophet. She never called herself a prophet, but rather a messenger.

Mrs. White claimed to have received more than 3,000 “inspired counsels from the Lord” (i.e., visions) between 1844 and 1868. (From these “visions,” she produced over 100,000 handwritten manuscript pages from which were published 54 books!) Therefore, SDAs have a new source of authority in their lives — according to SDA’s dogma, if an SDA does not accept Mrs. White as infallible, they have no salvation!

What does Revelation say about adding to or subtracting from the Word of God? Revelation 22:18-19 is quite clear. If anyone adds to the Word, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life…

Kelleigh Nelson has been an investigative researcher since 1975. Formerly an executive producer for three different national radio talk show hosts, she was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of wonderful guests for her radio hosts. She and her husband live in Knoxville, TN, and she has owned her own wholesale commercial bakery since 1990. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Kelleigh was marketing communications and advertising manager for a fortune 100 company in Ohio. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with high school classmate, Hillary Rodham, in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is well acquainted with Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention riots. Kelleigh is presently the secretary for Rocky Top Freedom Campaign, a strong freedom advocate group.

Senador Ted Cruz to offer bill banning Syrian refugees

Greg Nash

By Jonathan Swan and Julian Hattem – 11/16/15 05:20 PM EST

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has struck back at President Obama’s implication that his rejection of Syrian refugees is “shameful,” telling CNN he will be introducing legislation banning Muslim Syrian refugees from entering the United States.

“What Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing is that we bring to this country tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees,” Cruz told CNN’s Dana Bash in Charleston, S.C., on Monday.

“I have to say particularly in light of what happened in Paris, that’s nothing short of lunacy.”

Asked what would have happened if his own father — a Cuban refugee who fled the island’s repressive Communist regime — had been told all those years ago by political leaders that there was no place for him because of security risks, Cruz said it was a different situation.

“See that’s why it’s important to define what it is we’re fighting,” Cruz responded.

“If my father were part of a theocratic and political movement like radical Islamism, that promotes murdering anyone who doesn’t share your extreme faith, or forcibly converting them, then it would make perfect sense.”

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Bash said that Cruz also told her that this week he plans to introduce legislation that would ban Muslim Syrian refugees from entering the U.S.

Cruz is applauding moves by Republican governors across the country, who are refusing to accept Syrian refugees into their states, Bash added.

The Texas senator, who is running for president, was responding Monday to Obama’s press conference following the Group of 20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey.

Obama insisted that the U.S. would uphold his commitment of accepting refugees from Syria despite rising opposition from conservatives.

“The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism, they are the most vulnerable as a consequence of civil war and strife,” Obama said.

Obama appeared to be directing his critiques toward presidential candidates Cruz and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), who over the weekend called for the U.S. to focus on the Christians fleeing the Syrian chaos.

“When I hear folks say that, ‘Maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims,’ when I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefitted from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that’s shameful,” Obama said.

The Paris attack shows us what Islamic wild animals intend to do to us. So when will Ben Carson fire Armstrong Williams his de facto campaign manager and big Nation of Islam fan?

Carson makes his biggest blunders speaking off the cuff. Without his chief handler and puppet master it is very difficult for him to explain some of his most puzzling positions. He is not a politician and it shows almost every time he speaks. “But this is a year that we don’t want politicians,” you say.

This primary season has shown us that a strong resume can get you on the stage even if you are not a politician. But Carson is reminding us that once they hand you the mic something constructive has to come out of you. This includes something constructive coming out of the mouth of your chief adviser as well. Carson says enough foolish things – pyramids were built as grain silos- on his own to scuttle his campaign if he were White, but the nutty things he says are, well, nutty and should be laughed at as he is being shown the door.

What isn’t funny is that his chief adviser Armstrong Williams, the indispensable man in Carson’s camp, is a big supporter of the Nation of Islam! Think about that.

Williams has written that he thinks it would be a great idea to use taxpayer money to pay Nation of Islam criminal Muslim psychopaths, who have been recruited in prisons, to patrol the streets of Chicago. Presumably these self-avowed anti-Americans would be armed (they likely have their own guns) and work side by side with Chicago’s Finest.

When the attacks on Paris gave us a look at what Islam plans for us, Carson should have fired Williams immediately; but don’t hold your breath on that.

Carson has turned his campaign over to Williams because Williams supposedly knows what he is doing. Williams thinks there is nothing wrong with the Nation of Islam. That proves there is something wrong with Ben Carson’s judgment.

Saying Carson is even near Donald Trump in any credible poll is ridiculous.